New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-15
LITERARY NOTES.


many valuable details Of the relations existing be-
tween tho so-called Confederacy and England and
France.
In a sketch Of Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, the October
pook Buyer" describes the way in which the story
1Marse Chan, was suggested to the author In the
autumn Of 1880 friend Of Mr.. Page showed him a
letter which had been taken from tho dead private OF
a Georgia regiment. 1t was from his sweetheart ana
was very badly written. She told him OF her love-
and expressed for her bad treatment OF him.
She declared that she had loved him all the tmc ana
indeed since they had gone to school tose'her
when he used to be so good to her. Fhally she sao
that II he would get a fuIlough and come NOME sno
would marry him. There was postscript scrawio'
across the blue Confederate paper 10 the eiec' ' u.
must not como without fuilOugh, for IL nc uluh
come honorable she would not marry HIM. Inc
ror fclov cot his furlough at Malvern Hill or FAR
Oaks by bullet. Mr.. Page was so touchcu ny '''
Incident that he went to his law office ana began u
write Marse Chan which he >iinished in few even
ings and sent of to Sciibner's Monthly
A series OF unpublished letters written by Charies
Dickens will appear in "Thc English unsua'eu .""S
azine" during the coming year paper con, ann
sorne personal "reminiscences of Dickens 10y iooo, Wv
comedian will also be brought out In TINS cicNcr
periodical.
That gable writer. john Ashton Is ABOUT 10
add 10 his historical series Voiume OH ino iie' N
River, Prison and Marriages
Georcc M,cdonald's forthcoming novel is entitled,
@Home Again"
Tho Rev DR. Rridgman, OF the Madison Avenue
Baptist Church, In place Of his usual lecture .'.S
week read to his people W. II. McElroys story MI
NI,ddlcmas's Experiment., which appeared orls'ha'i'
I'm THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE The scheme Of reform SCI
forth in the story has attracted wide attention.
Tho e Duchess's' new story, The Duchess" is in
the press of J. Upplncout Co.
James Harrington's Commonwealth of Occana has
been added to Morlcys Universal Library.
The poems to be published this season 10y loushton
M1lin & Co include Poems, by Edward Rowland
snl Bird TaIk"a new volume by Mrs. A. d. T. WHIT
pev. "Farly and Late Poems of Alice and Fh"oc
Cary: The Dramatic Works OF George Peele lYr
les Idvls and Romances." selected from the poems OF
Robert browning ami "Agassiz and Other Poems"
2 new volume by James Russell Lowell.
There to bc few proof copies with the plates III
two states of the forthcoming edition of Charles
Lambs Beauty and the Beast Mr.. Andrew Lang
has written preface for the little DOCK
Miss Marietta Hollcy. the author Of Josiah Aliens
Wife, Is about bring out a volume of poems
The long-cxpectcd journal of Morpholocy' Is al
last about to appear The first number VIII ocdr'
though late. The date of september ana VIII oH,I "'
following list OF contributors and SUBJECTS l. iIoi0
sur II NJ. y
ye,si.y College, Toronto. Canada-sphy OsIerl
a contribution to American Helmnthplosy - D'
is Kingsley Editor of The American Naturalist
The development of the Compound Eyes OF 'ransoh
9 Dr. william Pattcn- a>Sistan. In the Lake Laura
tory. Milwaukce-Eycs of Moliuscs and MthropooS
d. DR. g. Baur, assistant IN Yale College MUSEUM
on the P!iyOGenctic Arrangement Of the SaurUl7'"
O. c. O. Whitman. Director of the Lake LABORATORY
milwaukee, A contribution to the History OF The
Gem LAYERS in Clcp-ne. 8. Professor E. b. Wilson,
Bryn MaNr Collcgc-Thc Germ-bands Of LnIlulicu''
2 DE- William Pottcn, assistant in the Lake l~poId
tory VI .wauhco- Stulic. on thc Eyes Of Arhrppo"''
DEVELOPMENT of the Eyes of Nespa, with OBSERVATIONS
ON Inc Ocelli Of some Insects. The number VIII
coat in moreover. double Ii hographic plates
ard one heliotypc plate. CHM Co., are the pup
fishers.
Tho ,r,ccadircs Of the International Med al Con
crcss At Washington Will nj fifteen largo volumes
which arc soon 10 be published by W l. Eel d Co.,
OF Philadelphia.
Mr. john Hal,bcrtons novel, Country Luck" Is to
app,ar simultaneously here and in London
General Adam Badcaus volume. Grant in Peace
-r,any interesting chapters OF which made their MT
apncayancc in IHh SUNDAY TEIBNL-is now in the
,r.s Of ; : scranton & Co., Of IiauorL General
Ialcau's close relations with Grant for many years
furnished him with much unique material which, as
III. readers know he Lcs Used to good advantage.
The work i TO be illustrated al" VIII VI SUI o'"S ~
subscription.
Bentley of London, Will publish this season sew
oral unusually in. crcstlng a,;abioslaphos. Among
them will be the "reminiscences Of W. T. Firth the
artist: What l Remember" Ly T. AdolrhuS Troil"pe
and "Verostchagn: Painter, soldier and Traveller.
A translation of Prince jerome Napoleon's book
"NapulcUn and his DciIaciOr- 1, In the press In Lon
don.
IN edition Of that Old favogtc Of school girls. The
Wide Wide world, Illustrated by Frederick Delman'
is 10 be brought out by LDplncOu.
F W. Eour1Gon, the poet Of "1he Night has a
Thousand Eyes, has edited in cd French and rem
dcrod in modern English with Introduction and sio'
sasy, the love story, ".iucas'in and Nlco'ci'e.
The industrious and sentimental Miss Yonec has
written biography OF Hannah More for the Emf
ncni Women Series.
4 collection of DR.. S. Weir Mitchons stories for
children is announced by Lppncott under the tile
of " Prince Little Boy and Other Tales out Of Fairy
Land"
The foundations Of tho library of Walter Besants
Pcoplcs Palace In the East End of London, have just
been lad and the buldin. VIII be completed in about
eight months. 1t will hoid nearly quarter OF
,.lion volumes large numcr Of books have already
been contributed
Charles Eebcrt Craddock C1iss Murirc.l is in the
New Hampshire Mount aims busy in finishing new
novel.
Professor Scclcy the same occasion Delivered an
interesting lecture the study OF literature ho
warned his hearers against the danger of artificial G
vigas of forgotten writers If they were l" 90 justice
10 tho literature of their own age. which had the hr-t
claim, up,,n them and II they to do justice to
French German and ta literature, not to speak OF
the Creek aid Roman classics, which he thought all
tle world ought TO read at least la tian,laons, lie
Thought they must make up their minds to forget a
gieat quantity Of Engish literature speaking Oh his
tory 10 which he was ircsistiby drawn, he said that
A. yas the text book Of politics, aud he thought that IN
An are lie this, when the questions at ISSUE were so